"Is there a way?"
Lin Xin focused intently on the lady in the drawing. This matter concerned his Honored Master’s life, making him unavoidably tense.
"There is one thod," the lady replied hesitantly. "It’s just...."
"Just what?"
"It’s just, to obtain such a thing, even with the position of a Saint Heir, one would need to make a major sacrifice."
The lady eventually continued.
Lin Xin fell silent at once.
He lowered his head, deep in thought for a while, then finally spoke again.
"What kind of sacrifice is needed?"
The lady didn’t answer right away, instead she changed the subject.
"The Life Fla of a Candle Earth Immortal is on the brink of exhaustion; in theory, it can be replenished with the Bathing Fire Elental Energy, but there is also severe poisoning in the body, so at least two amounts of Bathing Fire Elental Energy are needed for consumption.
Bathing Fire Elental Energy is a Seventh Rank treasure, ford from the burning of a Realm Stone... But to obtain a Realm Stone... the difficulty...."
"Realm Stone...."
Lin Xin lowered his head again, but this ti a long sigh of relief escaped his lips.
He had rged with a Realm Stone not too long ago and could still retrieve it.
A small world could be found again, but there was only one Honored Master. It was fortunate that it was a Realm Stone; had it been sothing else, he truly would have no solution.
Without a Realm Stone, it simply ant losing the freedom to control one’s own small world. As long as the coordinates remained, that world would ultimately still belong to him.
It was only that he could no longer refine a Realm Artifact, and naturally, becoming a Realm Master would also be out of the question.
Regrettably... he had originally planned to rge it, bringing the Land for God Worship into the small world for fusion....
rging with the Land for God Worship would have brought extrely significant benefits, the most direct being a rapid increase in cultivation level.
If the Land for God Worship were to change from a small piece of territory to an enormous small world, all the living creatures within it would beco subjects on his land.
Mont by mont, they would constantly proliferate, give birth, and practice cultivation, accumulating a base of such a population, the terrifying number of cultivators that would accumulate is the greatest use of a Realm Stone.
It is also the greatest reliance of those Realm Masters.
This is in fact the biggest gap between Realm Masters and ordinary Earth Immortals.
Earth Immortal Earth Immortal, what is essentially compared is who has a bigger territory and who has more and stronger cultivators on their land.
On the surface, what is compared is cultivation level, realm, and techniques of attack and defense. In actuality, what’s being compared is still foundation.
It is similar to those below the Fifth Rank.
The territory and population of an Earth Immortal is equivalent to the quantity and quality of Inner Qi of cultivators below the Fifth Rank.
The gap between Realm Masters is also like this.
It’s just that Longshe’s (Dragon Snake’s) situation is special. In the territory world, the land is vast, and there are plenty of powerful creatures, but none of them listen to him.
These creatures are like the dark injuries and toxins in his body; although they can provide him with robust support, they are akin to troublemakers causing havoc everywhere.
"So, we just need a Realm Stone, right?"
Lin Xin suddenly looked up.
The lady in the drawing was slightly startled, then she gathered her thoughts and nodded.
"Yes, with a Realm Stone, depending on the size of its world, an unequal amount of Bathing Fire Elental Energy can be burned and refined. And in our cult, the one who recently owns an unrged Realm Stone has asked for a very high price...."
"Who will do the refinent?" Lin Xin interrupted her.
"The Saint Heir can operate it by himself." The lady didn’t get angry and directly answered.
"If you possess a Realm Stone, my advice is to keep it for personal use. You know, a world can only produce one Realm Stone, and once it vanishes, there’s no longer any possibility of it forming. Such a thing is a rare treasure that’s encountered but not sought. In an innurable number of worlds, there are only so many Realm Stones, so too small a world might not even be able to form one...."
"How about this one?"
Lin Xin simply shrugged off his sleeve, revealing an olive-shaped Crystal Stone embedded on his right arm.
Just a glance at the Realm Stone made even the lady’s breathing grow heavy.
Such a supre treasure was suddenly in front of her; she montarily harbored the thought of rushing forward to snatch it.
But the fear of the rules of the Chanting Star Cult instantly suppressed the greed in her heart.
She carefully observed the Realm Stone on Lin Xin’s arm.
"It’s enough, and judging from its developnt, it seems to be nurturing a dium-sized world. After refinent, there might even be so left over!"
Her voice trembled slightly at that mont.
"How to refine and burn it?" Lin Xin asked again.
The stone house instantly fell into silence.
The complexion of the lady beca sowhat strained.
Burning the essence of an entire dium-sized world to save the life of a dium-small sized world’s Realm Master... such an idea was insane.
To think, a Realm Master from a dium-sized world would have the potential to break through to the Heavenly Immortal stage!!
It was like swapping a future Heavenly Immortal for an Earth Immortal old man on the verge of death.
"Saint Heir, do you... not think it’s a pity....?"
"Where there are desires, there must be loss." Lin Xin smiled, "Tell , how to refine it into Bathing Fire Elental Energy."
"...It’s simple." The lady’s face twitched, "Since you’ve already rged with it halfway, then you just need to, with intention, form a Heart Fire and imagine continously burning it. It can be completed within one hour."
"Thank you." Lin Xin smiled, "By the way, after refining it, how is it to be used on my Honored Master?"
"...Just inhaling it is enough... The effect of Bathing Fire Elental Energy is to reconstruct the body and soul, utterly abandoning everything that was. Although this might risk a fall in one’s cultivation level, many Body Cultivation Techniques and Divine Skills would need to be cultivated again, but it’s thorough."
"Understood."
"Well then, good luck to you."
After she said the final sentence, the piece of paper the woman had drawn on imdiately caught fire by itself and quickly turned to a pile of white ash which fell into the spatial fissure and vanished without a trace.
The white fissure also began to close by itself, slowly erasing all remaining traces.
Lin Xin gently caressed the Domain Stone, his gaze slightly firm.
Hiss!
He suddenly jabbed his five fingers fiercely into the edge of the Domain Stone, penetrating deep into the flesh.
No blood flowed, only wisps of white air slowly dissipated.
With a strong effort, he excavated the entire Domain Stone in one go, and beneath the stone were nurous white tendrils like hair roots.
Boom.
All the tendrils were abruptly ripped apart by Lin Xin with force.
His eyebrows twitched violently as he endured the severe pain and held the Domain Stone in his hand, beginning to try the thod the woman had ntioned.
Although he didn’t know whether the thod the woman spoke of would work, he had no other options at the mont.
With thought transforming into fire, he started to carefully burn the Domain Stone.
Ti ticked away.
As his concentration continued to intensify, the woman had underestimated Lin Xin’s spiritual power at this mont.
Due to the amplification of his attributes, his spiritual power had grown monstrously strong to an infuriating degree.
He had just stepped into the Earth Immortal level, but his physical body was already comparable to those Body Cultivation Earth Immortals who had toiled for tens of thousands of years to achieve Great Achievent in their cultivation techniques.
His spiritual power was equally formidable.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the Domain Stone began to gradually lt.
Little by little, white fluid appeared on its surface and began to flow and swirl, forming nurous tiny whirlpools.
Seeing this, Lin Xin imdiately intensified his focus, casually activating the formation inside the room and throwing out a pitch-black Array Plate inlaid with silver stars.
Suddenly, faint invisible ripples spread across the entire stone room’s walls.
After achieving the Earth Immortal status, the formations he triggered with a flick of his hand were many tis stronger than when he was at the Fifth Rank.
All possible explorations by thoughts were instantly blocked from the outside.
Earth Immortals deserved to be called powerful because, at this realm, one could completely prevent others from spying with their intentions.
What was known as invulnerability to all thods was referring to this level.
After setting up the protective asures,
Lin Xin gathered all his spiritual power to accelerate the burning of the Domain Stone.
Ti passed without a trace.
Poof.
Suddenly, the Domain Stone ignited, its surface catching a crimson fla.
That fla was mysterious and indescribable, red on the outside, white within, and at its core, was golden.
The mont the fla ignited, Lin Xin felt a sharp pain in his spirit. Blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, and his complexion instantly turned paler.
The half-fused Domain Stone was torn apart, being ignited and completely refined, which was akin to directly igniting and refining his own soul!
Just that mont ant he would have to endure at least a hundred years of arduous cultivation to recover the lost Elental Energy.
But as soon as the fla appeared, the entire stone room began to be filled with a faint sweet fragrance, as if hundreds of flowers were blooming and their nectar was evaporating.
The Domain Stone soon lted into a large mass of red, bizarre fla.
Hiss!
In mid-air, the fla split into four, manifesting four portions of Bathing Fire Essence.
Lin Xin wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, a relieved smile appearing on his face.
"Hopefully, it works..."
He reached out impatiently, gathered the four flas into his sleeve, and used a Seal Array Plate to lock away all fluctuation of aura.
Finally, standing in the stone room, he looked at the bloody hole in his right arm.
He suddenly smiled lightly, turned around, and quickly flew toward the Deep Fire Palace.
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In the vast interior of the Deep Fire Palace, Dragon Serpent sat alone on a long couch in the inner chamber, holding a cup of silver liquid in his hand, not drinking, just slowly playing with it.
As he looked at the cup, he seed to fall into a kind of reminiscence vaguely, and the black mist behind him beca denser and more obvious, as if it was coalescing into a ferocious double-headed black bear.
"Drink it, and you can forget all your sorrows," Dragon Serpent mused as he gazed at the cup of poison. He had stored it for so many years, never expecting it would end up being used on himself.
"Forgetfulness... If it really could be as its na suggests, that would be for the best..."
His eyes were complex as he reminisced about his life, a life that had its triumphs and its calm monts, as well as tis of paternal love and filial piety.
The flavors of life, sweet and bitter, he had tasted almost all of them.
During these long years, he had wronged many people, but he could also stand proud before many, with his hand on his heart, without sha.
Gently stirring the liquid, Dragon Serpent brought the cup to his lips.
A Rune Bead circled by a fiery red with nine white flas appeared slowly behind him, struggling in the black mist, releasing a faint red light.
For a mont, he also rembered the two disciples who, despite the peril, insisted on staying by his side. A faint smile crossed his face.
"In this life of mine, I have no regrets in death."
Gulp!
He tipped his head back and drained the cup of silver liquid to the last drop.
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